Hollywood has its message VERY wrong when portraying what architects and designers do in a day. starchitects:the podcast explores fact versus fiction with the professionals. How many interior designers (shoulder pads included) should work from the residential office of a sole proprietor? Would you pay for the services of an architect who signed off on a building where not only the electrical wiring is shot but the sprinklers won’t work unless you explode the water tanks on the roof (?!) using C4 (Paul Newman, I’m looking at you…)? Do you trust your developer moved the headstones AND the bodies?

A&D (architecture and design) professionals Jeff Wolinski, Vince Galea, and Roberta Pennington are joined each episode with a hand-selected “starchitect” in our amazing basement studio in Portland, Oregon and try to tear down what the entertainment industry has built up.

MEET THE TEAM

Roberta Pennington

**From:** Mansfield, OH
**Industry Focus:** Commercial Interior Design
**Years Experience:** 19
**Favorite Movie:** “Road House”
**Why is s/he a “startchitect?”**
*"...I created this show so I figure I can call myself whatever I want. And “starchitect” hasn’t been trademarked by the AIA…. yet."*

Vince Galea

**From:** San Francisco, CA
**Industry Focus:** Commercial Interior Design
**Years Experience:** 21
**Favorite Movie:** "The Train"
**Why is s/he a “startchitect?”**
*"...there are few people in this world that can integrate technical expertise, code prowess, and pure f***ing design magic equally, every day. This is the man who can."*

Jeff Wolinski

**From: Chicago, IL**
**Industry Focus: Film Production/ Architecture Project Administration**
**Years Experience:** 17
**Favorite Movie:** "Die Hard"
**Why is s/he a “startchitect?”**
"...a sharp sense of humor makes Jeff the perfect compliment to the infinite ramblings of design talk with the rest of the “starchitects” team. He also does a killer impersonation of his grandfather that makes me laugh so hard, a little pee comes out. I’ve never met Rich, but i feel like i know him. Tally ho!"